Today, for the heck of it, I rewatched the pilot movie of Lexx, a Canadian-German cable sci-fi show from the late '90s/early 00s that I distinctly remember as one of the most bizarre things I've ever watched. I was curious if I would still think that.

The answer is ... yes and no. It is still utterly bananas (details to follow). But it's more ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, I watched the first episode of Knight Rider on Netflix for nostalgia value/cheesy entertainment, after noticing that it was streaming. If you grew up in the US (or US-adjacent) in the 80s, you almost can't not know about this show, in which David Hasselhoff is consistently upstaged by a talking car; I was head over heels for ( Read more... )

Well, that's 10 hours of my life I'll never get back. It started out so promising, too!

( The not-so-spoilery version )

I am watching a lot of things right now, by my standards! We're up to ep. 16 on this one. (No spoilers please!!)

( Talking about a few things I like )

Orion and I are watching the Magicians TV series and are up to late season two. I've seen random eps here and there, and I still honestly prefer the books overall (sorry, TV fans), but it's entertaining and the cast is deeply charming.

I also find it hilarious that Eliot is like a foot taller than anyone else on the show, but when we looked up the ( Read more... )

So basically on work breaks, this past couple of weeks, I started watching an early-80s superhero comedy on Youtube, Greatest American Hero. All episodes are on Youtube here. I loved this show when I was a kid, but, well ... it was the 80s, and I was a kid. I mainly just decided to check out an episode on my lunch break for nostalgia.

So I've been ( Read more... )

Ted Lasso - Sitcoms aren't normally my thing, sports sitcoms even less so, but this is too adorable not to love: a fish-out-of-water/underdog-sports-team show about an American football coach who is hired to coach a British football (soccer) team in an intentional effort to torpedo it, everyone hates him at first, but ... you know, underdog sports ( Read more... )

I'm in early season three now, and somehow along the way this show has actually gotten really good (and surprisingly honest about the corrupting effects of spying, even on - or maybe especially on - likable, decent people). So much double and triple dealing, and blackmailing, and moral compromises, and heightened emotions. It's reached the point ( Read more... )

So I started watching Turn: Washington's Spies on Netflix because Burn Gorman is in it, and have now marathoned two seasons (two more to go!). This show is visually gorgeous period-drama brain candy which can best be described as an EXTREMELY biased version of actual American history in which the rebels are Everything That's Good, and George ( Read more... )

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